Mobile Distillery - Board: mobile industry experts

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Jean-Phillipe Bechade

Mobile Distillery CEO

Jean-Philippe has a strong background in large IT and telecom companies at senior management level, especially in sales and marketing development.

He was previously director of consumer, small and medium business and channel divisions for Lenovo in France and North-West Africa and was also director of the EMEA channel at Lenovo. He started his career as customer sales representative for IBM and then progressed to various management positions at IBM and Deutsche Telekom.

Jean-Philippe graduated from Angers Business School (ESSCA).

Cyprien Roy

Viveris Management Key Representative

Investment Director, head of Telecoms and IT within Viveris’ technology Investment Funds team, Cyprien drives investments in high-growth companies where he represents Viveris Management as adviser and Board Member.

Before joining Viveris Management, Cyprien was with the Financing and Investment Bank Natixis where he was in charge of risk management and funding of major accounts in the Infrastructure and Telecoms sectors. He then served as Financial Inspector till the end of 2001.

Cyprien Roy is a computer science engineering graduate from ESIEA and holds a MBA in financial management from the French Business School ESCP.

Olivier de Nicola

Former Chairman of leading French Online Travel Agency Go Voyages (700 Mn Euros), Olivier DE NICOLA was CEO of Thomas Cook France (1 Bn Euros). Capitalizing on a strong international business experience throughout his carreer, Olivier has started and developped several businesses in the leisure and event industry. He is now an investor in hi-tech start-ups as well as service-oriented companies.

Olivier graduated from the HEC Business School in Paris.

Pascal Didier

Inside Contactless General Manager & Corporate Secretary

Pascal has a long experience in the international hi-tech environment in senior management positions. Before joining INSIDE he served with Gemplus (now Gemalto) as senior vice president for e-Solutions.

Having joined Gemplus at its creation, Pascal was part of the management team that established the Gemplus North American subsidiary. Prior to Gemplus, he served as marketing manager for the Memory Division of SGS-Thomson Microelectronics. He also worked with Philips Components as integrated circuit designer and technical support engineer in France and in the United States.

Pascal has degress from both the Ecole Polytechnique and from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) in Paris.

Vincent Berge

Co-Founder of Mobile Distillery

Vincent has 20 years of international experience in high tech, including Internet, 3D, Video and Mobile, in various Marketing and Business Development positions, within games, film, broadcast and telecom market segments.

Before co-founding Mobile Distillery, Vincent worked at Discreet/Autodesk Europe, Middle East & Africa for 7 years as European Marketing Director. Before that he spent 7 years with IBM as European Segment Manager across a variety of high tech sectors including European eBusiness, 3D and VR business. Prior to IBM, Berge worked for 2 years at Scientific Software as project manager in Australia.

Vincent has a degree in Computer Engineering from the HEI/ESTIT School.

Eric Lemaréchal

MD FFS Inc. President, Co-Founder of Mobile Distillery

Eric has 20 years of international experience in operations management in the software industry with a focus on Media, Publishing, Internet and Mobile markets.

Prior to founding MD FFS Inc, Eric co-founded Mobile Distillery and headed it's early stage years. Previoulsy he served as Senior Director at Autodesk Inc., heading the EMEA Media operation for 7 years. He drove business development for both volume software products and Enterprise Software/Hardware Solutions for the Media and Entertainment markets. Before joining Autodesk in 1996, Eric spent 2 years with Triple-I/Autologic Inc., an enterprise publishing automation software & solutions company, heading up Business Development for EMEA Channels. Lemaréchal previously worked 5 years at Diadem SA, a high growth French publishing technology start-up, heading up Product Marketing and Business Development.

Eric has a degree from the ENSAD school of advertising design & communication in Paris. He has also completed an executive program at HEC school of economics in France.

François-Joseph Viallon

Mobile Distillery Head of Operators Business Unit - Business Development

François-Joseph joined Mobile Distillery in the early days as Head of Business Development for Southern Europe. He set up the PACA Mobile Center, a not-for- profit consortium, which has the world’s largest handset library available to companies that need to test new content or applications. He started his career in engineering positions within CapGemini Telecom and Legrand.

François-Joseph has a degree in Computer Engineering from Ingenieurs 2000 - Université de Marne-La-Vallée and a business degree from Grenoble Graduate School of Business.

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